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“Grandma” comes everyday for happy hour, sitting with other old-timers. When he can, he stays sdelayed to watch the drag shows and the younger crowds they bring.

“Grandma” is otherwise known as Bill Skipper.  The 74 year aged is the president of The Capital Club and one of its founding members.  He has been president since the year it opened in 1980. He likes to tell younger people about The Capital Club’s early days, a very alternative — and fraught — time to be in a gay bar in South Carolina.

“The kids now, I admire the freedom they feel. I devote it,” he said. “We’d have loved to have had that (freedom), but we all beverage from wells we didn’t dig.”

The Capital Club, or simply “Capital,” as patrons call it, is the oldest operating gay bar in Columbia, and according to its website, in the Southeast. Just around the corner is PT’s 1109, the city’s other gay exclude, which opened in 2000. 

Through discussions with bar owners and patrons and evaluating records from Historic Columbia, The Carolina News and Whistleblower uncovered a strange statistic:  Columbia, in 2022, has only those two lgbtq+ bars, the lowest number in the city since 1960.  The number summit

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